Management of the Complex Critical Care Patient

Intended Audience:
This course is intended for nurses with a minimum of one year experience working in a critical care environment.

Boost your confidence; review and discuss ever-changing technology. Have fun learning and reviewing in a safe and fun environment.

Course Description:
This 8-hour immersive simulation-based course provides an opportunity for experienced critical care  nurses to engage in realistic scenarios, discuss the  experiences and incorporate evidenced-based practices to promote best patient care. 

Topics include:
· Hemodynamic monitoring
· Ventilator management
· Lab interpretation and application
· Ethical dilemmas
· Evidence-based practice
· Effective communication techniques

Patients in the critical care environment have become increasingly more complex as research unveils and technology broadens treatment options. During this program, learners will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of immersive simulation scenarios to help promote critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and effective communication techniques. After each scenario, an interactive debriefing session allows time to reflect and discuss assessment techniques, interventions, ethical challenges, evidence-based practices, and effective communication methods.

Objectives:
Following this course, participants will be able to:
1. Monitor for signs and symptoms of hemodynamic instability in critically ill patients.
2. Accurately interpret alterations in hemodynamic values in critically ill patients.
3. Effectively integrate best practice interventions for critically ill patients.
4. Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to meet the care needs of critical care            patients. 
5. Coordinate the interdisciplinary care of patients using effective communication techniques.
6. Troubleshoot patient care equipment used in the critical care environment.
7. Uphold the nursing scope of practice within the critical care environment.
8. Actively reflect the impact to which simulation affects individual nursing practice.

Comments from past participants:
- The debriefs help to pull the information into my practice.
- Instructors are very knowledgeable.
- A great safe environment to practice our assessment and communication skills.
- Debriefing helped me organize.
- Overall a great learning experience.
- Scenarios and debriefing provided me with a mini refresher on physiology.
- Simulation and discussion is much more helpful than just a PowerPoint.
- Presenters said at the beginning the simulation would be fun.  Didn’t agree at the time.  Now that the end of    the day is here, they were correct.
- Very helpful.  Environment strongly encourages learning and promotes high level of nursing skills 
   assessments & communication.

Register: 
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Location:
HealthPartners Clinical Simulation & Learning Center
Regions Hospital  C7100
640 Jackson Street
St. Paul, MN 55101

Cost:  $100

Faculty & Planning Committee: 
Heather Anderson, MA, BSN, CHSE, CCRN*
Krista Kipper, MSN, RN, CHSE*
Gail Johnson, PhD(c), MS, RN, CCRN, CHSE
*Course Directors

Length of Program:  8 hours

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Continuing Education:
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. 
This program provides 7.5 contact hours of continuing nursing education.